Respiratory Care Protocols Manual

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• Implementation Section: This section of the manual includes various policies, forms, worksheets and information geared toward assisting managers to either begin a new Respiratory Care Protocol (RCP) program or update their current program.
• Education Section: This section contains a respiratory-specific patient assessment teaching program. It has been developed in outline format to facilitate two-way discussion between an instructor or preceptor and students or participants. It is applicable to both students in an accredited respiratory care program as well as staff respiratory therapists in a hospital respiratory care department.
• Case Studies: This section includes a variety of case studies that utilize Respiratory Care Protocols for creating an appropriate respiratory care plan. They are presented in a format that demonstrates how the four fundamental RCPs may be selected, applied and combined to render timely, responsive and effective respiratory care plans. These case studies can be read through independently, but the greatest value would be to use the outlines to stimulate discussion in a group session led by an instructor or preceptor.
• Competency Section: This section includes three types of competency assessment tools that can be used by an instructor or a preceptor to document assessment skills, comprehension and progress. These forms, or forms modeled after them, could be kept in the employee / student record) to document competency of fundamental respiratory patient assessment. Attention is given to appropriate learner feedback in the form of written response, spoken response and return demonstration of technique or psychomotor action.
• Bibliography: In lieu of specific references and literature citations, which are only used sparingly, this section is comprised of an extensive bibliography that is pertinent to the subject matter presented throughout this manual.

• Judith A. Tietsort, RN RRT FAARC is a health professional whose commitment to progressive respiratory care management spans more than 35 years. A nationally known consultant, author, presenter and educator she has played a key role in the development of standards that today serve as the benchmarks of high-quality, cost-effective respiratory care. Highlights of her background and experience include:

Director, Respiratory Care Services, Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge CO.

Developed therapist-driven protocol program, which is nationally recognized as the most effective way to deliver quality, cost effective respiratory therapy to hospital in-patients. Endorsed by the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American College of Chest Physicians and the National Association of Medical Directors of Respiratory Care. Implemented the largest outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Helped develop an in-patient respiratory care unit, which served as a model of the team approach to delivering respiratory care, therapy and education.

Author of numerous articles and co-author of several books.

Lifetime Fellow and active member of the American Association of Respiratory Care; the Colorado Society of Respiratory Care; and the Respiratory Therapy Directors. Previously served as chair of the AARC Management Section.

For the past several years Judy has been employed full time working with hospitals helping them to justify and implement Respiratory Care Protocols as well as training their staff in this new paradigm of care.
 
• Michael McPeck, BS RRT FAARC – Mike started as an OJT in Dayton OH in 1965 and received “inhalation therapy” training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1966 and has dedicated over 40 years of his life since then to the health care profession in key clinical, educational, managerial and biomedical positions. His professional contributions to the field began as early as 1969 when he began to lecture about pulmonary physiology and respiratory therapy as a lab assistant for CW Post College on Long Island. To date, he has delivered over 150 invited lectures to respiratory therapy professional groups and the public. Mike has written a number of book chapters and journal articles for Respiratory Care, Chest, Critical Care Medicine, and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine during his career and has made numerous poster presentations at AARC and other related meetings.
  
  For nearly 30 years he was a well-known respiratory therapy manager in the New York City area and was the administrative director of the respiratory care department, pulmonary function laboratory and biomedical engineering department at Stony Brook University Hospital, State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, where he founded the RT department in 1979 and practiced for 22 years.
   
• Douglas E. Masini, EdD RPFT RRT-NPS AE-C FAARC – Doug received his respiratory therapist training at the University of Toledo OH. He was clinical coordinator and manager of Respiratory Services at Memorial Medical Center of Jacksonville FL, an instructor at the ITS Career Institute, and adjunct faculty at Florida Community College of Jacksonville. Doug left Florida in 1990 to establish an “all protocol” respiratory therapy department while building a new, 387 bed acute-care hospital in Bristol TN / VA. While in graduate school he worked as a clinical specialist in home care. Doug completed a fellowship and continued his post-doctoral work as Clinical Assistant Professor in the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Internal Medicine Department / Asthma Education Clinic, and in the Pediatrics Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine. He is an allied health member of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care (FAARC). Doug is active in the ETSU Center for Experiential Learning human simulation laboratory, and currently serves as the Director of the Cardiopulmonary Science program at East Tennessee State University. His respiratory therapist training program received national recognition when it was awarded the 2007 Committee.

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